Waymo's distinctive white robotaxis are finally available to all Angelenos, marking a significant expansion of driverless technology in the city. As reported by multiple sources, the Alphabet-owned company announced Tuesday that anyone with the Waymo One smartphone app can now hail a ride within an 80-square-mile service area across L.

Waymo closed a $5.6 billion funding round in October to expand its robotaxi service across the U.S. The autonomous vehicle venture is owned by Google parent Alphabet, which led the series C investment in Waymo, alongside earlier backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price.

Of course, Waymo is now in direct competition with human-powered transportation services like Uber and Lyft, both of which operate without any pesky geographic restrictions. Those services are often cheaper than Waymo’s vehicles, and customers can expect shorter wait times for rides.

Waymo One, the driverless ride-hailing app, is now fully available to much of greater Los Angeles after the robotaxi service previously started offering rides in LA to a limited number of people on a waiting list.

Waymo One app expanded its robotaxi rides to everyone in Los Angeles (LA) yesterday. Now, anyone and everyone, including 300,000 Angelenos who have been on Waymo’s waiting list for long, will be able to take Waymo’s autonomous ride within the 80 square miles area of LA.

Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a secret project at Google 15 years ago.

Waymo currently operates a fleet of all-electric vehicles that have been customized to enable autonomous driving in these cities. The company is delivering over 150,000 paid rides every week to the public, it said in October.

Waymo expands its robotaxi services to all of LA and now has its sights set on national expansion through strategic partnerships.

The company said 300,000 people in the second-largest U.S. city have been waiting to use its robotic ridehail service – twice the number of paid weekly rides it provides.

Anyone in Los Angeles with the Waymo One app can now request a driverless ride within an 80-square-mile area of the city.

The expansion comes eight months after Waymo began offering rides in Los Angeles to a limited group of passengers chosen from a waiting list that had ballooned to more than 300,000 people.